’the road is Slippery ahead.’
A warning like this needs more european drivers have, if it is to Volvo. The Swedish automaker has decided to make the two systems in a couple of years has been reserved for the Norwegian and Swedish Volvo owners, available in the whole of Europe.
the Systems, called Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert, and makes it possible for Volvo cars to talk to each other. The idea is that the cars must be able to warn each other about smooth lead and other obstacles on the road and on the way to prevent an accident happens.
It tells the head of Volvo’s operations department, Malin Ekholm, in a press release:
– the Sharing of data between vehicles in real time can help to avoid accidents. Volvo owners is to make the roads safer for other drivers who have installed the feature, while at the same time take advantage of the early warnings for potentially dangerous road conditions ahead, she says in the press release.
Volvo-the cars that have the systems installed will be constantly hooked up to an internet-based cloud, where the warnings are shared. The cars will monitor the roadway in silence and give the message to the cloud, if the system detects a danger.
If the driver beats the advarselsblinket to, the information will also be shared here.
Volvo writes in a press release, that you open to install the systems from the next week, and that they will be standard equipment on all models from next year.
In other words, will the Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert is followed with the other new safety systems that Volvo has announced that from next year: Here the top speed among other things, be limited to 180 km/h., just like your car should be able to take control if it detects that the driver is intoxicated.
The Swedish car manufacturer is hoping that other automakers will be to share data about road condition in the cloud. Until further notice, the shared technology is available only with a Volvo lastbilafdeling, Volvo Trucks.
– The more vehicles, we share safety information with in real time, the safer our roads become. We hope to be able to establish several cooperation agreements with partners, who share our commitment to safety, says Malin Ekholm in the press release.
According to Volvo it requires a car that is built on the manufacturer’s SPA – or CMA-platform, and the maximum three years old, to get the installed systems.
